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Participatory Development and Reconstruction: a literature review

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  • Patrick Milabyo Kyamusugulwa

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In the past decade researchers and development experts have been preoccupied by participatory development and reconstruction. Despite criticisms of its potential, it has been at the centre of development practices. This review of both published and unpublished literature aims to assess the importance of participatory development and reconstruction, especially its positive and negative characteristics. The paper shows that, despite its potentially transformative role, its main drawback rests in the power relations between elites and non-elites and that creating comprehensible ways through which non-elites can deal with these relations is one issue that needs additional research. Other issues that need more research are related to how to sustain the participatory development and reconstruction outcomes by increasing local ownership, and how to better involve existing structures and institutions (both state and non-state actors) in development and reconstruction efforts for poverty alleviation.

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  • Patrick Milabyo Kyamusugulwa, 2013. "Participatory Development and Reconstruction: a literature review," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 34(7), pages 1265-1278.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:34:y:2013:i:7:p:1265-1278
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2013.824653
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    1. Whaley, Luke & Cleaver, Frances & Mwathunga, Evance, 2021. "Flesh and bones: Working with the grain to improve community management of water," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 138(C).
    2. John‐Michael Davis & Yaakov Garb, 2019. "Participatory shaping of community futures in e‐waste processing hubs: Complexity, conflict and stewarded convergence in a Palestinian context," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 37(1), pages 67-89, January.
    3. Elisabeth Eppinger, 2021. "How Open Innovation Practices Deliver Societal Benefits," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(3), pages 1-19, January.
    4. Daniel Abrahams, 2022. "Lessons in a bottle: The outsized impacts of soda in development practice," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 34(6), pages 1071-1085, August.
    5. Hui Zhang & Zijun Mao & Wei Zhang, 2015. "Design Charrette as Methodology for Post-Disaster Participatory Reconstruction: Observations from a Case Study in Fukushima, Japan," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 7(6), pages 1-17, May.
    6. Kyamusugulwa, Patrick M. & Hilhorst, Dorothea, 2015. "Power Holders and Social Dynamics of Participatory Development and Reconstruction: Cases from the Democratic Republic of Congo," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 70(C), pages 249-259.

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